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A list of the latest newsElsevier B.VCall for Papers: Special Issue on Road Safety as Reflected by Empirical Non-crash Datahttp://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-f-traffic-psychology-and-behaviour/call-for-papers/special-issue-road-safety-empirical-non-crash-data/
Road safety evaluation is typically based on the observation of road accidents. Although accident data provide significant information, they also have important limitations – not least due to substantial underreporting. Research on complementary safety indicators has been going on for a long time and is gaining renewed interest in the field of road safety as new data collection methods have become available with increased insights as outcome. This special issue mainly focuses on methods and case studies that make use of empirical information "before the accident happens" to assess safety. As a vital supplement to accident data, it is necessary to focus on qualitative and quantitative empirical data from the field. Such empirical data encompass methods and data ranging from verbal data; on-site applied questionnaires; strategy-oriented in-depth interviews and focus-group interviews; to interaction and reaction analyses based on the observation of traffic conflicts, behavioural and vehicle data. The most challenging part of the work, there, is to identify variables that accurately reflect traffic safety. Moreover, special effort should be put on different groups in traffic, e.g. vulnerable road user safety, aging and gender issues. And in order to learn more about pedestrians and cyclist single accidents, hospital data and ambulance data should be dealt with. Furthermore, it is important to see traffic safety as one quality among many other qualities (such as health, quality of life, housing and living conditions) in a sustainable transport system. For example, if traffic safety is obtained at the expense of an environment that has become so unattractive that certain groups are not using it, you may have created rather than solved problems. To make progress in this sense is connected to the collection of empirical data, an approach which can take us much further than accident data analyses alone can. Empirical data, as a complement to accident data, therefore allow us to assess the safety performance of currently existing traffic systems and to evaluate possible alterations, both from the safety and from the other mentioned perspectives.
]]>29/01/2015 00:00:00Policies and Guidelines: Peer Review Policy for Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviourhttp://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-f-traffic-psychology-and-behaviour/policies/peer-review-policy-for-transportation-research-part-f/
The practice of peer review is to ensure that only good science is published. It is an objective process at the heart of good scholarly publishing and is carried out by all reputable scientific journals. Our referees play a vital role in maintaining the high standards of Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour and all manuscripts are peer reviewed following the procedure outlined below.
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